The Price (1985) (Episode 5)

Part 5 of 6 of the 1985 thriller. When a severed finger comes through the post to the police station, the authorities realize that koney will have to be found quickly in order to stop the kidnappers from losing patience. But hostage negotiator Simon fears what will happen if the IRA group sees the police there and arranges a different drop off plan with Geoffrey, Margaret and Andrew behind their back. But when the day comes the police begin to smell a rat, and the resulting chaos sees the situation end very badly indeed...

Starring Peter Barkworth, Harriet Walter, David Lyon, Nicholas Jones, Derek Thompson, Adrian Dunbar, Aingeal Grehan, John Kavanagh, Linda Spurrier and a young Susanna Reid. This episode sees the chance for the release of Frances and Clare Carr (though quite why they'd want to is anyone's guess), but the drop off goes very badly wrong. This is an exciting episode in what has continued to grip throughout it's 6 episodes. By the way, if you are wondering about the boring or odd picture stills for the videos, it seems I am now unable to edit my own video pictures, so these are Dailymotion's scren choices. Just in case you were wondering).